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Paul

Maybe AMD will put XDR on its roadmap and give Intel something to worry about :)

It's always possible

But some info I saw today (posted at TMF) makes it likely that AMD has a programmable DDR/DDR2 memory controller in it's future line-up including the dual core chips.

Read some of that dual core stuff which came out of NDA today. Interesting is the quite large performance increases (at same clock speed, which AMD has managed for the x2 chips and Intel hasn't because of heat problems) of these x2 chips with the same memory interface as before. The benchmarks have been run with DDR400 against Intel's with DDR2-667 (at least some I have seen)

Makes one scratch one's heads about one's assumptions about those bandwidth needs caused by multicores, doesn't it?

Cheers
Cor